One newspaper said this morning that Dravid wanted to resign his captaincy on a winning note and not as a loosing captain. And pray what that winning note is?
It’s the Team India’s test series victory in England after 21 years. People may have different takes but I believe the series-win over a depleted England side will be far outweighed by Dravid’s dismal failure to force follow-on and win the test at the Oval, and further succumbing in the one-day series.
It’s one thing to find captaincy a hot place to be in and therefore miserably fail as a batsman, but it’s another to have real guts to face the music when the going is tough. If Rahul had resigned after the World Cup debacle taking moral responsibility, people would have seen him in a different light.
He did not and so his resignation now is nothing less than a sheer act of opportunism.
But that’s not all. Recently he opened his mouth against Greg Chappel after blindly towing his line when the latter was the coach. There are quite a few such instances but let me not go into them.
I believe Kumble is a much taller person having withstood neglects in his heydays and coming back stronger each time. Then of course we’ve Sourav, but lest one feels I’m parochial in my judgment because both he and me are Bengalis, I’ll not deal on that.
Coming to Rahul Dravid, he will better be known as ‘The Wall’ who never had a commensurately stronger spine.
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